The climate change habitability index

rate, the CCHI is defined abstractly as a metric that can be stated in ordinary language and diagrams that allows people to answer the following three questions related to sustainability and adaptation to climate change: • Can I continue to live where I am living? • Where can I move if I can’t continue to live where I’m living? • How many people can the place where I live sustainably support, if where I live continues to be habitable? By “can I continue to live where I am living,” we mean to ask if a place is habitable enough for people to live in accordance with water and food supplies, health conditions, and the habitability of coastal environments in particular and other environments in general. By “where can I move if I can’t continue to live where I’m living,” we mean to ask which places are habitable or have better, more sustainable living affordances respective of the five factors identified by the IPCC—water, coasts, food, health, and The most recent Sus...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: INTERACTIONS
• Authors: Yue Pan, Chit Meng Cheong, Eli Blevis
• Keywords: Climate Change, Habitability, Habitable, INTERACTIONS 2010